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A man employed in decoying wild fowl...
Decoy
Decoy [probably fr. kooy, Dut., a cage], a place made for catching wild water-fowl. As to the rights of an owner of such a place, see Carrington v. Taylor, (1809) 11 East 571; 11 Mod 74, though the decision in this case is overruled by Allen v. Flood, 1898AC 1.The word 'decoy' means to entire, tempt, lure of allure. There can be no such thing as 'forcibly decoy is a person from his place of residence. The word implies enticement or luring by means of some fraud, trick, or temptation, but excludes the idea of force. (Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.)...
Decoy
To lead into danger by artifice to lure into a net or snare to entrap to insnare to allure to entice as to decoy troops into an ambush to decoy ducks into a net...
Decoy duck
A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy hence a person employed to lure others into danger...
Decoyer
One who decoys another...
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female line, the Duke of Athol, sold it to the Crown for 70,000l., being about ten years' purchase of the annual revenue, by the Isle of Man Purchase Act, 1765 (5 Geo. 3, c. 26).The Isle of Man is not subject to British Acts of Parliament unless expressly named therein (as in the Customs Acts, for the purposes of which, by s. 277 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is deemed part of the United Kingdom), being legislated for by its own Parliament, called the House of Keys, but an Isle of Man (Customs) Act, is passed every year by the Imperial Parliament....
Straw, Man of
Straw, Man of, a man of no substance. A transfer of shares, in a company, to such a man is good, subject to its regulations, so as to relieve the transferor from liability to pay calls upon the shares, if the transferee be sui juris, and there be no resulting trust for the transferor [see De Pass's case, (1859) 4 De G. & J. 544], and unless the Stannaries Act, 1869, s. 35, applies; and see CONTRIBUTORY. Likewise the assignee o a lease may escape liability on the covenants after assignment by 'assigning over' to a man of straw....
dead man's statute
dead man's statute : a law barring the testimony of a person with an interest in an estate regarding any conversation with or any event taking place in the presence of the decedent called also dead man act dead man's act ...
Shire-man, or Seyre-man
Shire-man, or Seyre-man, anciently judge of the county, by whom trials for land, etc., were determined before the conquest....
man made
Not of natural origin prepared or made by humans artificial of substances made by chemical reaction rather than extracted from a natural source as man made fibers man made gems Opposed to natural...
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